The coal age is over in the country that sparked the industrial revolution 200 years ago. In a matter of hours, the boilers at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station — each the height of a 12-story ...

As a boy growing up beside India’s railway lines, I found magic in the metallic thunder of passing trains. Now ...

Swift coal transition from country that started Industrial Revolution will be watched closely. In 2012, coal still supplied nearly 40% of the UK's electricity.

Coal powered the Industrial Revolution and the expansion of the British Empire. At the height of its reliance on coal, in the 1950s, about 96% of the United Kingdom's electricity came from burning it.

Since the industrial revolution, iron and steelmaking plants have grown up close to coalfields. Steel mills in the Ruhr Valley, Silesia, and South Wales all developed around coal deposits. Ever-larger ...

The coal age is over in the country that sparked the industrial revolution 200 years ago. In a matter of hours, the boilers at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station — each the height of a 12-story ...